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After wandering, for some time, in these, the party returned to the

shore and e them to

extend their excursion, they proceeded further up the bay A dead calht breeze, that wafted them hither, and the men

took to their oars Around, the waters were spread into one vast expanse

of polished rey cliffs and feathery woods, that

over-hung its surface, the glow of the western horizon and the dark

clouds, that ca

oars i circles they left,

which gave a tre the harmony of its features

Above the darkness of the woods, her eye now caught a cluster of high

towers, touched with the splendour of the setting rays; and, soon after,

the horns being then silent, she heard the faint swell of choral voices

from a distance 'What voices are those, upon the air?' said the Count, looking

round, and listening; but the strain had ceased 'It seemed to be a

vesper-hymn, which I have often heard in my convent,' said Blanche

'We are near the monastery, then,' observed the Count; and, the boat

soon after doubling a lofty head-land, the in of the sea, where the cliffs, suddenly

sinking, formed a low shore within a s which partial features of the edifice were seen;--the great